29 number in each column provided in the close-ended part. For each statement, they
were asked to choose the frequency of occurrence of a certain statement which expresses the possibility perception on consultation in writing course.
2. Interview
This research provided open-ended questions for the interview as the data gathering method. The interview was done orally and informally. It took place in
Sanata Dharma University. Therefore, the respondents could answer the questions comfortably and the interviewer got further information to complete and to
recheck the result from the questionnaires. The questions that were asked in the interview were more or less the same with the open-ended question in the
questionnaire. There were five questions for interviewing the students and three questions for interviewing the lecturer.
E. Data Analysis Technique
Since this study belongs to a descriptive study, the researcher distinguished
the students’ perception and the influences of student-teacher consultation by using the questionnaire and the interview given.
1. Questionnaire Data
In order to answer the research questions, the data analysis techniques below were expected to be able to gather information. In order to find the
students’ perception on student-teacher consultation in academic essay writing course, the researcher distributed questionnaire to 30 students and interviewed
five students. The data from questionnaire and interview were classified based on positive response and negative response which the students gave. The researcher
30 calculated the questionnaire data into percentage. The formula of percentage
calculation was as follow:
in which : ∑ x = the number of the students based on the degree of agreement
∑ n = the number of all the students After finding the degree of agreement percentage of each statement, the
researcher analyzed the data by using this table:
Table 3.1 Example 1 of Table of Questionnaire
No Statements
Frequencies of Responses Strongly
Agree Agree
Disagree Strongly
Disagree
2. Interview Data
After analyzing the questionnaire, the data from the interview was analyzed by writing the conversation between the researcher and the respondents,
summarizing and concluding the answers. The researcher provided five questions as the main questions for the interview and chose five students to be interviewed.
The researcher wrote the transcription of the interviews to present clearer conversation. Therefore,
the students’ perception on student-teacher consultation in academic essay writing course and the influences of student-teacher
x 100
